Cannot create custom FreeBSD 7.0 install CD for serial console

2008-10-01 Thread Carl
installer, the screen goes blank and I'm left with nothing but an eternal blinking cursor. Am I up against another Intel S3210SHLC motherboard problem or does UNetbootin not actually live up to it's claims for FreeBSD 7.0? Anyone know? Is there anyone out there

Re: Cannot create custom FreeBSD 7.0 install CD for serial console

2008-10-01 Thread Carl
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 02:41:03AM -0700, Carl wrote: I've been trying to create a modified FreeBSD 7.0 install CD that will allow me to do installations entirely via the serial console on a headless system. Lots of digging on the Internet, reading the handbook,

Intel S3210SHLC motherboard and FreeBSD 7.0

2008-10-02 Thread Carl
else entirely. I've had a couple of incidents where pressing the reset button actually powers down the server for 5 seconds or so before automatically powering back up. Not a big deal, but doesn't instill confidence in this motherboard. Carl

Re: Intel S3210SHLC motherboard and FreeBSD 7.0

2008-10-05 Thread Carl
t, but nothing complete. Surprising, actually, when you think about it. No one else out there with experience combining the Intel S3210SHLC motherboard and FreeBSD? Carl / K0802647 ___ freebsd-ques

Re: Cannot create custom FreeBSD 7.0 install CD for serial console

2008-10-05 Thread Carl
.iso, which I then burned and tried. End result? Abject failure again. All boot stages still use the internal console. Just after "Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf" appears, there is a *very* long pause added as compared with the unmodified install CD. Eventually it resumes. Don&

cannot install from existing UFS thumb drive with sysinstall

2008-10-09 Thread Carl
ly nothing about NFS, so excuse what is probably a stupid question... is it possible to use sysinstall's NFS capabilities to mount a local UFS filesystem somehow? Carl / K0802647 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: cannot install from existing UFS thumb drive with sysinstall

2008-10-10 Thread Carl
be my only hope unless I want to move to another OS. Carl / K0802647 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

gjournal: journaled slices vs. journaled partitions

2008-10-20 Thread Carl
ation, it seems to end with adding .journal entries to /etc/fstab. Am I trying to achieve the impossible or ill-advised here? Carl / K0802647 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.free

Re: gjournal: journaled slices vs. journaled partitions

2008-10-21 Thread Carl
an occur in /var and the scenario my server will occupy has me concerned about inglorious shutdowns. What are the actual reasons for why journaling a small partition is considered a bad idea? Carl / K0802647 ___

Re: gjournal: journaled slices vs. journaled partitions

2008-10-21 Thread Carl
Any chance you'd like to share your command sequence for constructing your gmirror'd and gjournal'd filesystem, Volodymyr? :-) Carl / K0802647 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://

re: Setting up gmirror

2008-10-21 Thread Carl
rithm. Does "round-robin" not mean simply alternating between the two disks without ever splitting requests? What are the considerations in choosing between "load", "prefer", "round-robin", and "split" balance algor

Re: Setting up gmirror

2008-10-22 Thread Carl
ere is no difference between "split" and "round-robin" algorithms then? Carl / K0802647 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

gmirror + subset of partitions gjournal'd, autosync setting?

2008-10-26 Thread Carl
r the journaled partitions in the mirror, but not for the rest? Carl / K0802647 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: gmirror slice insertion, "FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51"

2008-10-28 Thread Carl
possible. Fortunately, this is all about constructing a new system, so there's no data yet to lose. Is there anything I should know about this model of hard disk with regards to being known for problems? Also, is there a good test I can perform to hopefully flush ou

Re: gmirror slice insertion, "FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51"

2008-10-29 Thread Carl
0x0010 100 100 000Old_age Offline - 2 ... > And here we see the core of the problem. :-) Advice is simple: replace this hard disk. Hope this helps. It definitely did, Jeremy. Your explanations were most helpful. Thanks! Carl

Re: gmirror + subset of partitions gjournal'd, autosync setting?

2008-10-29 Thread Carl
Carl wrote: I've built a GEOM mirror on a single slice of a single disk and am about to insert the second disk. Of the partitions in the mirror, I made only a few of them gjournal'd. I've seen it recommended that one disable autosynchronization for the mirror if using journa

building a port with very long list of build options

2011-04-21 Thread Carl
solution? Given that I do not want to customize the port's Makefile, I was hoping 'make' would support a command line option that would let me simply point to a separate file containing the list of variables to add, one per line. It'

Re: building a port with very long list of build options

2011-04-22 Thread Carl
make file. If I'm correct, that doesn't seem to me to be a good idea from a maintenance perspective. I was hoping for something like the -f option that somehow inserted rather than replaced. Carl / K0802647 __

Re: building a port with very long list of build options

2011-04-24 Thread Carl
On 2011-04-22 4:13 AM, Manolis Kiagias wrote: On 04/22/2011 10:33 AM, Manolis Kiagias wrote: On 04/22/2011 10:08 AM, Carl wrote: This form will override the Makefile present in the current directory and will use the specified make file with name your_own_make_file_name . make -f

FTP server at freebsd.isc.org is broken

2011-06-01 Thread Carl
.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/gd-2.0.35.tar.bz2: Syntax error, command unrecognized => Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this => port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles// and try again. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/graphics/gd. What is the recommende

wildcards don't work in sh shell for FAT32 filesystem

2009-02-09 Thread Carl
he context of this discovery was trying to use the grub-install script from the GRUB port to install its boot loader on a FAT32 thumb drive. The script aborts when it attempts something like "rm -f /mnt/boot/grub/*stage1_5" Carl

FreeBSD 7.1 distribution DVD

2009-02-10 Thread Carl
iveFS on the thumb drive? Alternatively, since I'm using Grub as a multiboot manager, how would I alter the FreeBSD boot configuration such that it boots the liveFS directly instead of the primitive sysinstall-only boot option? Carl

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2006-08-20 Thread carl
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a problem setting screen resolution with Xorg-6.9.0

2006-08-20 Thread carl
wonderful resolution, but it makes everything rather small, and the icons are difficult to see. I am obviously setting something wrong, but I do not know what it is. Might anyone have any suggestions. I really would rather have the resolution be 1280x1024. Thanks for your help! C

Re: JavaNNS installation issues under FreeBSD

2003-11-17 Thread Carl Mascott
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everybody, > I'm getting problems to install the JavaNNS 1.1 in FreeBSD 4.9. > I tried to install via ports and the package JavaNNS-LinuxIntel.tar.gz > but with both i get the same error, that they could'nt find the > libSNNS_jkr.so. > It asks the path to put the li

Re: JavaNNS installation issues under FreeBSD

2003-11-18 Thread Carl Mascott
ike trying one of the jdk14's, be sure to read the port pkg-message and pkg-descr files before you decide. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm using diablo-jre-1.3.1.0 from www.freebsdfoundation.org > > Carl Mascott wrote: > > > >Which JDK or JRE are you

Re: cannot install from existing UFS thumb drive with sysinstall

2008-10-10 Thread Carl Voth
sysinstall is for anyone wanting to use a USB thumb drive as an install medium. In fact, it's looking totally unusable. Clearly sysinstall is utilizing 'mount' functionality for it's own purposes. Surely there's some way for me to access it too

gmirror slice insertion, "FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51"

2008-10-27 Thread Carl Voth
gate ST31000340AS Barracuda 7200.11, 1TB, SATA (x2). - LG GH20NS10 Internal Super-Multi SecurDisc 20X SATA DVD Rewriter. - Antec 4U22EPS650XR case (NeoPower 650W PSU). Carl / K0802647 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.o

Write attempt to file in ZFS snapshot dir causes panic

2009-10-18 Thread Carl Chave
I'm new to FreeBSD. Been experimenting with 8.0-RC1 and zfs in a VM. Really haven't even installed it yet, just getting familiar with zfs usage from the fixit environment. I experienced some strange behavior and was wondering if this would warrant a bug report: 1. load zfs from bootloader prompt

Re: ZFS: Strange performance issues

2009-10-19 Thread Carl Chave
Chris, Don't know, but, I will paste in a portion of the ZFS admin guide from SUN: Because these statistics are cumulative since boot, bandwidth might appear low if the pool is relatively idle. You can request a more accurate view of current bandwidth usage by specifying an interval. For example:

Re: Write attempt to file in ZFS snapshot dir causes panic

2009-10-20 Thread Carl Chave
Thanks for testing it out krad. I went ahead and submitted the PR: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=139806 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Migrating from Linux (keeping partitions at install time)

2009-11-08 Thread Carl Johnson
mented, it appears that most new ext3 filesystems default to 256 byte inodes. When I created a filesystem with 128 byte inodes then FreeBSD could mount it just fine. I didn't try ext2, but I think the inode is independent of ext2 or ext3. This is for FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE, so maybe things hav

Re: Migrating from Linux (keeping partitions at install time)

2009-11-08 Thread Carl Johnson
Ruben de Groot writes: > On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 10:18:21PM -0800, Carl Johnson typed: >> Frank Shute writes: >> >> > On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 05:35:58PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: >> >> >> > [snip] >> >> >> >> No

Re: slow clock on FreeBSD 7.2 on vmware

2009-12-12 Thread Carl Johnson
w every hour, keeps it from getting > behind too much. Perhaps that is what I'll end up doing, loading the > ntp server, I guess that would keep it up to date better? Thanks. If it is consistently off by a certain amount, then you might want to look into /usr/sbin/ntptime to set a frequency o

IMAP and SMTP-AUTH with sendmail on FreeBSD 7

2008-05-14 Thread Carl Bussema
ttp://spamcop.net/fom-serve/cache/297.html with this reference: http://www.spamcop.net/w3m?action=blcheck&ip="; $&{client_addr} ""')dnl GENERICS_DOMAIN_FILE(`/etc/mail/generics-domains')dnl define(`confMILTER_MACROS_HELO', confMILTER_MACROS_HELO`, {ver

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-18 Thread Carl Johnson
t happens, and I have been running unix and linux for about 20 years. I have always had multiple partitions in the past, but for 9.0 I went with the single partition. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: VBox network boot

2012-02-28 Thread Carl Johnson
n noticed your page and tried the PCnet-PCI II card and it started working. I would guess that means their Intel card emulation is incomplete. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.fre

Re: VBox network boot

2012-02-29 Thread Carl Johnson
Warren Block writes: > On Tue, 28 Feb 2012, Carl Johnson wrote: > >> Warren Block writes: >> >>> On Tue, 28 Feb 2012, Da Rock wrote: >>> >>>> I'm starting to believe this dog won't hunt (in fact is dead, >>>> bloated, and ful

Re: libc regex word-boundary support fallen-off?

2012-03-08 Thread Carl Johnson
> I switched from i386 to amd64 last year so it might be something to do > with that. I'm currently using 8.2p6. The only way I have found to do it is [[:<:]] and [[:>:]]. That is very awkward, so I't love to hear of a shorter way. I found them in the re_format(7) manpage. --

Re: find date of last boot

2012-06-07 Thread Carl Johnson
Fbsd8 writes: > dmesg command does not show date of last boot. > > Are there some other commands to find date of last boot? In addition to the other responses: sysctl kern.boottime -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org ___ freebsd-

Re: ROOT on ZFS with MBR partitions

2011-02-26 Thread Carl Chave
How long are you waiting? What are you booting from? On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Slawomir Wojtczak wrote: > > Anything interesting happening during your install? > > I would say no, everything seems smooth until I try to boot it. > > ___ > freebs

Re: Purchased Binaries

2011-03-06 Thread Carl Johnson
sion if > required to make this stuff run. One addition to the points that others have made is that the Linux compatibility layer appears to be 32 bits only, even for 64 bit versions of FreeBSD. At least that is true for Release 8.1. If the software is 64 bit linux, then it won't

Re: glabel causes "GEOM: ada1: media size does not match label" messages

2011-03-20 Thread Carl Johnson
el: An incorrect partition c may cause problems for standard > system utilities > partition h: partition extends past end of unit > > I don't care about partition 'h'; it is there only to stop the > preceding partition from covering the last sector. Are there any real &

Squeezebox Server 7.6 failed to load: YAML::Syck

2011-06-12 Thread Carl Chave
install gives me: YAML::Syck is up to date (1.17) I'm not really sure what else to check. Can someone point me in the right direction? Carl ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questi

Re: mountroot

2011-06-29 Thread Carl Chave
2011/6/29 Warren Block > On Wed, 29 Jun 2011, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > > Op 29-6-2011 21:19, Trond Endrestøl schreef: >> >>> On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 21:18+0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: >>> >>> Op 29-6-2011 21:15, Trond Endrestøl schreef: > On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 20:42+0200, Dick Hoogendijk wro

Re: new to os

2011-08-19 Thread Carl Johnson
ect-Linux-FAQ/downloadwp8.html. Most of the links are dead or changed, but a couple of them do have files to download. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Is there way to get filename for specific LBA?

2011-08-31 Thread Carl Johnson
eport which inode was using a > particular block. It looks like the best bet would be fsdb, assuming that it is a UFS file system. That does have a 'findblk' command to find a file containing a block, but you would need to calculate the

Re: Help Finding ZFS snapshots

2011-09-05 Thread Carl Johnson
see 'em with > "zfs list -t snapshot". The .zfs directory is hidden by default so you have to specifically ls or go into them. Do a 'ls' on the base directory of any zfs file system, and then add .zfs to the end and you should see the .snapshots directory. -- C

Re: cpio command and schg flags

2011-09-05 Thread Carl Johnson
Flags are explicitely mentioned here. Maybe you can give > this program a try? I think that tar will also work (but not gnu tar), and it is part of the base system. The manpage does show an example of how to do this, but calls it moving the file heirarchy. -- Carl Johnson

Re: snd_hda: how to configure line-in passthrough to line-out?

2011-10-05 Thread Carl Johnson
x27; and 'mix' settings in mixer(8). I also must have the 'igain' set to something above 0, but the volume isn't directly controlled by it. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list h

Re: Timeline for 9.0-RELEASE?

2011-10-05 Thread Carl Johnson
partially updated. That will at least give you some idea about the schedule. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send an

Re: Freebsd, Virtual OSs and GUI

2011-10-12 Thread Carl Johnson
f the OP is going to run a 64-bit OS, then hardware vitualization assist is *required* for VirtualBox to handle it. It is not required when VirtualBox is running a 32-bit OS. Just another minor detail to consider. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org ___

Re: Help needed: sound/audio only semi-working

2011-10-21 Thread Carl Johnson
aying from audio. My system uses a Gigabyte GA-MA785GPM-US2H, and the sndstat output is: FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 64bit 2009061500/amd64) Installed devices: pcm0: (play) pcm1: (play/rec) default pcm2: (play/rec) pcm3: (play/rec) Let me know if you want further information. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Help needed: sound/audio only semi-working

2011-10-23 Thread Carl Johnson
Carl Johnson writes: > "Ronald F. Guilmette" writes: > >> I've been bringing up a new amd64 box with 8.2-RELEASE. So far I've managed >> to get everything installed OK, including a boatload of freshly-built ports. >> I've even gotten flash10 wo

Re: nice man pages?

2011-10-25 Thread Carl Johnson
't tried 9.0, but this works on 8.1-RELEASE and 8.2-RELEASE. You can decide for yourself if that does what you want. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinf

Re: nice man pages?

2011-10-26 Thread Carl Johnson
hat might have been just because I hadn't been using enough colors. I put it in but there is no change for my applications. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailm

Re: nice man pages?

2011-10-26 Thread Carl Johnson
Carl Johnson writes: > Patrick Lamaiziere writes: > >> Hello, >> >> I use sysutils/most to have nice manual pages in color, that's cool but >> is there a way to do this with the base system (ie without adding port)? > > I use a colorized termcap with les

Re: How to dual-boot FreeBSD 9 with Linux?

2011-10-28 Thread Carl Johnson
tem requires that you already have the 'ufs2_stage1_5' file in your grub directory. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: How to get /dev/smb* ?

2011-11-02 Thread Carl Johnson
C dev.cpu.1.temperature: 29.2C for your system? I have an AMD cpu and the amdtemp kernel module provides that information. I am not familiar with the Intel cpus, but the coretemp module is supposed to provide the same information for them. I use gkrellm for various thing,

Re: ntpdate on boot problem

2011-11-05 Thread Carl Johnson
x... It's all explained in > crontab(5). Just be aware that 'Run once, at startup', means when 'cron' starts, not just when the system boots, unless they have changed it recently. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org _

Re: Invalid fdisk partition table found

2011-11-23 Thread Carl Johnson
of that somewhere, so I grep'ed the man pages. I found hints on geom(4) and boot0cfg(8), but they certainly aren't obvious. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/m

Re: sudo log messages

2011-12-04 Thread Carl Johnson
authpriv The sample file that was mentioned earlier is one source for information, but the best source is the sudoers(5) man page. Just search it for syslog and you will find several settings. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org ___ freebsd

Re: Problems with pkg_upgrade

2011-12-25 Thread Carl Johnson
such a hassle I can't help directly with your problem, but both portupgrade and portmaster support packages. In both cases you can just supply the -P or -PP options to specify how to handle packages. I think they both require that the ports tree be present for the /usr/ports/INDEX file, but othe

Re: OT: Root access policy

2011-12-29 Thread Carl Johnson
mmands "with root >> privileges". >> > > "sudo su -" or "sudo sh" and the customer gets a native root shell which > does *not* log commands ! The sudoers manpage mention the noexec option which is designed to help with the first problem. They a

Re: Installing FreeBSD ver. 8.2

2012-01-07 Thread Carl Johnson
;kenv' command seems to have the board name available as 'smbios.system.product'. The 'kenv' command without arguments will show all values, so you can make sure that is the proper variable. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: kgzip(8) regression in RELENG_9 GENERIC

2012-01-23 Thread Carl Johnson
edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 > > push900# which kgzip > /usr/sbin/kgzip On my system: $ uname -a FreeBSD birch.localnet 9.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Jan 3 07:46:30 UTC 2012 r...@farrell.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 $ whereis kgzip kgzip: /usr/src/u

Re: FreeBSD 9 and 3G Modems

2012-01-26 Thread Carl Johnson
g >>kldload umodem >> > > Done, although kldload u3g tells me that file already exists! Perhaps > because I booted up with my Huawei dongle plugged in. > kldstat | grep u3g shows me nothing though. The command 'kldstat -v' shows tha

Re: FreeBSD 9 and Windows XP

2013-03-11 Thread Carl Johnson
ing that FreeBSD doesn't allow using part of a disk, but grabs the entire disk. That means that VirtualBox can't use partitions on a disk that any other partitions are being used by anything else, including FreeBSD itself. Am I wrong about this? I use VirtualBox using vdmk f

Re: FreeBSD 9 and Windows XP

2013-03-11 Thread Carl Johnson
Warren Block writes: > On Mon, 11 Mar 2013, Carl Johnson wrote: > >> It is my understanding that FreeBSD doesn't allow using part of a disk, >> but grabs the entire disk. That means that VirtualBox can't use >> partitions on a disk that any other partitions

Re: Recipie for CPU souffle'

2013-04-03 Thread Carl Johnson
non-OS components. You can use > it as a basis to build a program that will send you system messages > in an audible way in morse code... :-) Have you looked at the morse man page lately, specifically the -p option? :-) Just try 'morse -p sos' to test it. -- Carl Johnsonca..

Re: define more partitions in freebsd

2013-06-01 Thread Carl Johnson
l will handle these, so you definitely should experiment first. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: define more partitions in freebsd

2013-06-02 Thread Carl Johnson
4.2BSD0 0 0 t:2097055 398458884.2BSD0 0 0 I also tried newfs on all the ufs partitions without problems. I just tried this on a FreeBSD 8.2 system and it works there as well. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org _

Re: gvim GUI cannot be used

2013-07-05 Thread Carl Johnson
e this does not work. Unless I hack the Makefile and force it to > enable gui mode it just isn't compiled in. Try running 'make show-options' and see what you get. Mine shows that virtually everything is disabled. If I run 'make showconfig' then it shows n

Re: had sound working, updated machine now lost sound

2013-08-26 Thread Carl Johnson
-> 0 > > Got the sound working like it was. > How do I get it to stick across reboots? > > Which would be the preferred way? Since you can set it with sysctl then sysctl.conf is the logical place, although loader.conf might also work. I use sysctl.conf so I know that wo

Re: Adaptec 29160 Scsi card / camcontrol rescan

2004-06-17 Thread Carl Reisinger
J.D. Bronson wrote: I know the bus will slow down with the tape drive attached, but will it come back to normal speeds once I remove the tape drive? - and/or do I have to run the camcontrol command again? Run the rescan again. Just removing the device from the bus does not cause the kernel or the

Location of disklabel

2005-03-10 Thread Carl J
if the question is stupid. I just somehow couldn't logically see where it would be stored, and yet be compatible with having other OS on the same drive... etc. Thanks! - Carl ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/

Re: IBM eServer 346 ServeRaid is too slow

2005-04-06 Thread Carl Makin
4420C) I'd say you are seeing the same as I am with the same card in a Dell 1855. There is something wrong with the mpt driver and the disks when they are setup in a raid0 set. If you split the disks and use them as individual drives then you will get full performan

Mathematica 5 under FreeBSD Emulation?

2004-01-07 Thread Carl McTague
Hello, sorry if this has been discussed already, but I can't seem to find it: has anyone had any luck getting the Linux version of Mathematica *version 5* to work under FreeBSD emulation? Thanks, Carl ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

cvsup gets connection refused

2004-02-09 Thread Carl Libra
When starting cvsup I get the message connection refused when trying to FTP. I think it takes the user id from my server and uses that ... and that's not known at the download server ofcourse. Where can I configure to use an anonymous userid or is there another way to solve this. Thanks,

Re: tar Syntax Help

2005-07-07 Thread Carl Delsey
paths in your exclude file, tar fails to match them. Alternatively, if you want to keep the absolute paths, try tar with the -P option. Your exclude list may work as is in that case. I haven't ever tried that myself though. Just be careful when you untar if you do use that switch. Carl On Thu

Growisofs seg faults with DVD-RAM. Anybody else seen this?

2005-07-29 Thread Carl Delsey
r alternatively, you still have the problem and my patch would be useful to you. :-) By the way, I'm running Freebsd 5.4 Release and I'm using dvd+rw-tools 5.21.4.10.8 with an ATAPI DVD burner configured to be /dev/cd1. Thanks, Carl ___ freebsd-ques

Re: Growisofs seg faults with DVD-RAM. Anybody else seen this?

2005-07-30 Thread Carl Delsey
On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 03:54:25PM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Friday, 29 July 2005 at 22:50:13 -0700, Carl Delsey wrote: > > I'm wondering if anybody else has seen this problem, and if you've > > found some other workaround for it? Or alternatively,

Re: Growisofs seg faults with DVD-RAM. Anybody else seen this?

2005-07-30 Thread Carl Delsey
On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 02:16:17PM -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote: > I'd be happy to review or test them first if you'd like, but any changes of > this sort really ought to go upstream to Andy Polyakov > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or to the cdwrite mailing list at > . Thanks. I've just emailed Andy about t

Re: problems burning multi session dvd-rw

2005-08-01 Thread Carl Delsey
;-blank=full option. > > > > > >Marc > > > > > > > > > > > > > > i cvsup'd to the latest and still the same thing, any ideas? > > Did you use "-blank=full" or "-blank"? > Did you have th

Re: growisofs: no mkisofs options are permitted with =, aborting

2005-08-01 Thread Carl Delsey
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 09:50:03AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Monday, 1 August 2005 at 22:31:45 +0200, Hanspeter Roth wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I'm trying to burn an iso image onto a DVD+RW. > > I'm trying: > > > > growisofs -Z /dev/cd0=image.iso > > The version of growisofs that

Re: growisofs: no mkisofs options are permitted with =, aborting

2005-08-01 Thread Carl Delsey
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 01:25:22AM -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Carl Delsey wrote: > > > >It's valid syntax ... just not documented in the man page. You have to > >go out to the website to find out about it. > > Look just before the NOTES section of the manpage

Re: growisofs: no mkisofs options are permitted with =, aborting

2005-08-03 Thread Carl Delsey
On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 12:06:15AM +0200, Hanspeter Roth wrote: > On Aug 01 at 22:31, Hanspeter Roth spoke: > > > > > Hello, > > > > I'm trying to burn an iso image onto a DVD+RW. > > I'm trying: > > > > growisofs -Z /dev/cd0=image.iso > > > > This yields: > > > > growisofs: no mkisofs op

open() vs the lowest unused file descriptor

2004-10-15 Thread Carl J
match SUSv2 more closely. Thank you! - Carl _ FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar – get it now! http://toolbar.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200415ave/direct/01/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ma

Re: No Sound FBSD 8.1

2010-10-09 Thread Carl Johnson
efault_unit=1) controls the back panel jacks, and /dev/mixer2 controls the front panel headphone jack. You will probably have to just experiment with the different mixer controls to see which controls which on your system. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org ___

Re: start kde in 8.1

2010-10-28 Thread Carl Johnson
advice on the net with so far isn't working to start >> it: >> echo "startkde" > ~/.xinitrc >> I have attempted startx but the system doesn't know about it. >> may I have a suggestion to proceed? Do you have

Bridging Gigabit and Fast Ethernet Interfaces

2010-11-28 Thread Carl Chave
or doing backups but also still have internet access via the server's bridge interface right? Is there a reason I wouldn't want to do it this way? Thanks, Carl ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

GPT/ZFS/USB mountroot prompt

2010-11-30 Thread Carl Chave
tem finishes booting. In /boot/loader.conf I've got: zfs_load="YES" vfs.root.mountfrom="zfs:zrootusb" zrootusb mountpoint is set to legacy and /etc/fstab exists but is empty, per the guide. Any ideas? Thanks, Carl ___ freebsd-q

Re: GPT/ZFS/USB mountroot prompt

2010-11-30 Thread Carl Chave
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 12:07 AM, Carl Chave wrote: > I followed a gpt/zfs on USB stick guide for putting a base 8.1-RELEASE > amd64 onto a 4GB sandisk USB memory stick.  All went fairly well and > the system will boot but fails to mount the root file system and dumps > me a the mount

Re: cpio misunderstanding?

2010-12-26 Thread Carl Johnson
e testing for flag support out of curiosity, and found that only cp -p, bsdtar and dump support them. Cpio, afio, gnutar, gnucp and pax do not support them. I also tested extended attributes (used for ACLs?), and only bsdtar and dump worked for them. Those results were for usf, and generally did

ZFS + GPT with root on memory stick and mirrored SATA drives

2011-01-09 Thread Carl Chave
Posting the below for input. The bulk of this is from a guide that Morgan Wesström posted to this list. Some of it is taken from the root on ZFS wiki entries on freebsd.org. Some from a pjd post here: http://blogs.freebsdish.org/pjd/2010/08/06/from-sysinstall-to-zfs-only-configuration/ And then

Re: ZFS + GPT with root on memory stick and mirrored SATA drives

2011-01-10 Thread Carl Chave
> echo -en "\n\nNow run these two commands to make the changes live, and > reboot >  zfs set mountpoint=legacy $zpool/be/$nroot >  zpool set bootfs=$zpool/be/$nroot $zpool\n\n" Thanks for the input krad. It would be nice to easily switch back and forth but aren't you still stuck if everything bl

Re: Date of a FreeBSD installation

2011-01-13 Thread Carl Johnson
t/defaults/loader.conf > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 19426 Aug 24 2008 /boot/defaults/loader.conf > > No, forget about that, also nonsense, looks to new... How about /var/empty: % ls -ldo /var/empty/ dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel schg 512 Jul 18 19:16 /var/empty/ It can be changed, but doesn&#x

Re: Date of a FreeBSD installation

2011-01-13 Thread Carl Johnson
Chip Camden writes: > Quoth Carl Johnson on Thursday, 13 January 2011: >> Polytropon writes: >> >> > On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 13:50:27 -0800, Chuck Swiger wrote: >> >> On Jan 13, 2011, at 1:46 PM, Devin Teske wrote: >> >> > This is nearly alw

Re: Date of a FreeBSD installation

2011-01-13 Thread Carl Chave
> I'd suggest looking at the Btimes of top level directories > > stat -f "%SB %N" /* Or how about just / as this ~15 minutes earlier than most of the remaining top level directories sodserve# stat -f "%SB %N" /* Jan 9 04:54:21 2011 /COPYRIGHT Jan 9 04:54:21 2011 /bin Jan 9 04:54:21 2011 /boot

Re: Simple command to reset / clear all logs?

2011-01-13 Thread Carl Johnson
but others not. The newsyslog.conf(5) manpage mentions a 'C' flag that can be specified. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To u

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